Lois Prize 2010 Coming Up

Feb 3, 2010

Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Submit Your Poems to the 2010 Lois Cranston Poetry Prize:

10. winner gets $300 prize
9. winner gets published in a beautiful magazine
8. finalists get a free 3 issue subscription to CALYX
7. finalists get published on CALYX website
6. semi-finalists get the recognition of being really close to winning (yes!)
5. it makes editors smile to see lots of different poets writing and sharing their work
4. fun for interns to carry mail from our PO box to our office
3. raises funds for CALYX–support women’s literature!
2. it’s exciting to wait and see if you win (contest! contest! contest!)
1. ALL contestants get 1 free issue of CALYX

We start accepting submissions March 1!

Send 3 poems and $15 entry fee to PO Box B Corvallis, Oregon 97339

See http://www.calyxpress.org/ for full contest details

Lois Cranston Poetry Prize Winners on CALYX website!

The hard work of judging the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize is done. The poems of our winner, Linda Strever of Olympia, WA and of our two Honorable Mentions — Pat Cason of Vancouver, WA and Kathryn Alison Graves of Keizer, OR — are on our website at http://www.calyxpress.org/ . After that always comes the hard work of thanking all those who submitted, and sending them a copy of CALYX Journal.

Kelly Sorting!

Our interns, Shayna and Kelly, did a lot of packing, sealing and sorting — here’s Kelly at work in our mailroom (above).

CALYX Brigade with Mail

Almost 700 submissions were received! And yesterday, after at least a week’s worth of prep, we got the many packages in the mail!